Anna Moore

" The sixth daughter of Timothy and Ruth Bates was Anna, who was born on the old homestead on Wills Creek and grew to womanhood on the farm. She married Dighton Moore and ten children were born: John, Abigail, Lafayette Barna, Ruth, Salvana, Abraham, Nancy, Martha and Amanda J., who died April 25, 1856, aged 3 years and 18 days. After Anna and Dighton Moore were married they lived on a farm in Seneca Township. They sold their land and bought land in Center Township near Sarahsville and after living there for several years they sold out and bought land in Galia County, Ohio, near Crown City, where Anna and Dighton Moore died and were buried. Their oldest son, John, grew to manhood in Noble Co. and enlisted in Co. D 42nd Reg. O.V.I. in 1861 and served three years. After he was discharged he returned to Noble county and married Miss. Clementine Stotts and six children were born, one deceased. They moved to Gallia County, where the wife died.

The oldest daughter of Dighton and Anna Moore, Abigail, married, Uriah Tuttle and five children were born: Dighton, deceased, Rozila, deceased, Lafayette, who married Arie Craft, John, who married Miss. May Solliday and lives in Sarahsville, and Anna, who married U. H Shadwell and one daughter, Pearl, was born. She married a Mr. King. Anna Shadwell died in Sarahsville."

-- Written around 1910 by Dighton Bates

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